Healthcare architecture in an era of radical transformation / Stephen Verderber, David J. Fine.

Main entry:

Verderber, Stephen.

Title & Author:

Healthcare architecture in an era of radical transformation / Stephen Verderber, David J. Fine.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 404 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-390) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction: The Six Waves of Health Architecture -- Ch. 2. The Hospital as a Machine for Healing -- Ch. 3. An Imperfect Machine for an Imperfect System, 1970-80 -- Ch. 4. Utopian Excursions -- Ch. 5. Reinventing the Hospital -- Ch. 6. Reinventing the Patient Room -- Ch. 7. Architectural Environments for the Aged, 1965-2000 -- Ch. 8. The Community Care Clinic -- Ch. 9. Frontiers of a Transformed Landscape.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This book explores for the first time the dramatic social, technological, and architectural transformation of hospitals during the final decades of the twentieth century. Stephen Verderber and David J. Fine critically examine how and why acute-care hospitals and the often-related psychiatric facilities, retirement communities, and community clinics have changed, for better or for worse."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300078390 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780300078398 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Hospital architecture.
Health facilities Design and construction.
Facility Design and Construction trends
Hospital Design and Construction trends
Architecture as Topic trends
Hôpitaux Architecture.
Équipements sanitaires Conception et construction.
Architecture hospitalière.
hospitals (buildings for health facility)
Krankenhausbau

Added entries:

Fine, David J.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 210784
Call No.: NA6763 .V4 2000
Status: Available

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